John Singer Sargent's Coming of the Americans  (JSS Gallery Frontpage) (more on Widener Library)
 
 
 
Coming of the Americans  
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
1922
Widener Library, Harvard University
Oil on canvas
444.04 x 186.69 cm (176 x 73.5 in)
Anonymous gift to Harvard University - L109
jpg: Sargent at Harvard
 
  

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Bibliography: 

Margaret E. Gilman, "The Sargent Panels in the Widener Library", Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Dec. 1922, pp. 215-216 

Harvard Crimson, Dec. 4, 1928 

John Walker III, "To the Editor of the Crimson", Harvard Crimson, June 7, 1929 

"Sargent Murals Well Received at First Appearance", Harvard Crimson, June 8, 1929, p. 1 

"Mural Paintings and Sargents at Widener", Boston Evening Transcript, March 9, 1929 

"The Writing on the Wall", Harvard Crimson, May 31, 1929 

"Unveil Sargent's Paenls at Harvard", American Art News, Nov. 11, 1922, p. 5 

"Harvard's Heroic War Dead Immortalized by John Singer Sargent", Boston Evening Transcript, Nov. 3, 1922, p. 20 

F.W. Coburn, "In the World of Art", The Sunday Herald, Boston, Nov. 5, 1922 
 

 
 
 
 

 

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